For the first time in decades, Wisconsin prisoners will be able to apply to have their sentences commuted, Gov. Tony Evers announced last week. Wisconsin Watch talked to three experts about how ...

Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order establishing a commutation advisory board, marking Wisconsin's first step toward ...

Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday that he had signed two executive orders to begin offering commutations, a reduction of a ...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed two executive orders to restore the state's process for commuting prison sentences.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result ...

In Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant clemency — it was during Republican Tommy Thompson’s administration ...

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is taking steps to shorten some criminal sentences by handing down the state’s first commutations ...

Last summer, Gov. Phil Murphy announced a new clemency initiative designed to fast-track the review of certain applications for pardons or commutations. He's issued two "rounds" of actions since then ...

Here is a running list of some notable people Trump has pardoned or sentences he has commuted in his second term: Jan. 6 riot defendants Hours after he was sworn in, Trump announced from the Oval ...

Governor Tony Evers signed two executive orders on Friday, focusing on restoring commutations process in Wisconsin.

Bolden, who became the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on the security detail for a U.S. president, was among 78 people granted pardons or commutations of their sentences on April 26, 2022, ...